Have you ever thought of making a roof garden?

Transform your rooftop into a beautiful garden where you can entertain, dine, or just relax and enjoy the view. Green roofs not only add a magnificent living environment to your home but can also lower your energy costs and increase its resale value. You can even have an high-tech rooftop garden and outdoor space that can include architectural details such as waterfalls, ponds, greenhouses, rock-gardens and gazebos.

A green roof is a plant-covered roof cover, with growing, live flora taking the place of bare membrane, gravel, shingles or tiles. Green roofs are a healthy alternative to traditional roofs and provide a number of benefits over conventional roofing, including a longer lifetime as a roof. The roofs save on heating and cooling costs, and provide a better sound barrier than conventional roofs. They also help reduce our CO2 emissions.

Green roofs are obviously installed differently than conventional roofs, and require more maintenance. The number and type of roofing layers vary from roof to roof, but all green roofs include a waterproofing layer, draining, soil and other growing media, and the plants and trees. Theoretically, any roof surface can be greened - even sloped or curved roofs can support a layer of sod or wildflowers. Switzerland has just passed a bylaw which states that new buildings must be designed to relocate the green space covered by the building's footprint to their roofs - even existing buildings -including historical buildings - must now green 20% of their rooftops.

If you are interested in creating your own roof garden talk to us.